voxcogitatio

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by voxcogitatio 16y ago
I'm glad to hear that they've catched up to the original UNIX. :)
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by voxcogitatio 16y ago
Benjamin Pierce considered troll.
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by voxcogitatio 16y ago
The "You need a PHD to understand Haskell" slur is so bloody ridiculous. I certainly didn't have a problem with it, and I haven't even finished my degree yet! On a more general note, I find the idea that a programming language can be "too s
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by voxcogitatio 16y ago
Yes, but large projects often need to use recursive makefiles, which are notoriously flaky at detecting what has changed (if anything).
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by voxcogitatio 16y ago
No this is what a GPL developer considers a "loss". Specifically, yet another demonstration of why developing for someone else's walled garden is a bad idea.
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by voxcogitatio 16y ago
I'm not sure that Haskell could, given time, subsume dynamically typed programming. But even if it is possible, why would it be desirable? Most Haskell people don't think very highly of dynamic typing, and the extensions to the language ref
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by voxcogitatio 16y ago
Icaza has a long history of being a microsoft shill, I can't say I'm suprised to see him leap to his master's defence once again.
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by voxcogitatio 16y ago
The confusion about the use case of NoSQL probably stems from the term "NoSQL" being so vaguely defined. All you can say for sure about one is that it's not relational. But other than that there's not much in common between (for example) ke
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by voxcogitatio 16y ago
Remember, you can also use any language that compiles to Java bytecode on a JVM. A short list includes Scala, Clojure, Ruby, Python, Groovy and even Javascript(via Rhino). So the JVM and Java are very much separate things.
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Learn you a Haskell: Zippers(learnyouahaskell.com)
49 points by voxcogitatio 16y ago|13 comments
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by voxcogitatio 16y ago
There is also the matter that the whole "correctness vs. productivity" debate is a false opposite. There is nothing mutually contradictive with correctness and productivity, so there is no reason why you can't have both.
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by voxcogitatio 16y ago
Of course human error applies here too; But it's much simpler to get one type right than to use the type in the right way everywhere. Per example: The Red-Black-Tree implementation mentioned in the examples. If we define a tree that cannot
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by voxcogitatio 16y ago
It's amusing watching the author use purple prose over a single blinking LED. I bet if Steve Jobs gave him a turd he would describe it as "that which makes the flowers grow, with a heady aroma".
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by voxcogitatio 16y ago
It continues to amaze me how many and adamant apple's apologists are. Stockholm syndrome?
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by voxcogitatio 17y ago
Let's assume that the author is right when he says that all companies ignore linux. What would make that such a big disaster? Is there some specific proprietary app that _needs_ to be ported to linux? I myself haven't found a task that lack
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by voxcogitatio 17y ago
I'm not sure i agree with graham on this one. Certainly it's useful and necessary to keep some brevity, however his jab at design patterns is a schoolbook false opposite (if you don't like extreme brevity you must be an enterprise java prog
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by voxcogitatio 17y ago
To me the really interesting question is how Microsoft ever got to be a monopoly in the first place, with the kind of products they've been making. What made windows and office succeed in the first place? Can you really coast that far just
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by voxcogitatio 17y ago
I disagree with the main premise: That as long as you provide the "90% functionality" (i.e mail,chat e.t.c), no casual user will miss the last 10%. Sure, most of the time this will work fine, but occasionally people want more. Maybe upload
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by voxcogitatio 17y ago
Several problems with this article: 1: Critique against mouse and keyboard rings hollow. It's stuck around so far because it "just works" for a large number of apps. Touchscreens not similarly proven. 2: Limitations of the hardware is toute
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Apple may demote Google in favor of Bing for iPhone search(arstechnica.com)
2 points by voxcogitatio 17y ago|0 comments
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GHC on ARM(tommd.wordpress.com)
1 points by voxcogitatio 17y ago|0 comments
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Qt as GTK, again(thelins.se)
1 points by voxcogitatio 17y ago|0 comments
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Microsoft has a plan to improve Bing's poor indexing(arstechnica.com)
2 points by voxcogitatio 17y ago|0 comments
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Top Programming Fonts(hivelogic.com)
60 points by voxcogitatio 17y ago|35 comments
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by voxcogitatio 17y ago
Especially considering how many (and recent!) examples there are of that kind of thinking leading to disaster in economics. I'd say those that don't learn history are doomed to repeat it, but this barely qualifies as history.
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Git Docs: It is a bold start(git.kernel.org)
3 points by voxcogitatio 17y ago|1 comments
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Naïve Parallelization: C++ vs Haskell(flyingfrogblog.blogspot.com)
19 points by voxcogitatio 17y ago|3 comments
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Presentation on the new Python GIL(dabeaz.com)
77 points by voxcogitatio 17y ago|27 comments
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Haskell Weekly News: Issue 146(sequence.complete.org)
8 points by voxcogitatio 17y ago|0 comments
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The state of Haskell-Torrent(jlouisramblings.blogspot.com)
4 points by voxcogitatio 17y ago|0 comments

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